I recently had an interview with Keo Hlope from Newzroom Africa. We discussed the effect of the first 100 days of lockdown on the automotive industry, used car sales, trends and insights. As car dealerships started to open their doors to car buyers, they’ve been cautious about operating under the new normal. Car dealerships have [...]
In this new world of Automotive Digital Retailing. How do car dealerships attract and retain the best of the best employees. Leadership is hard, especially now, in this period of lockdown where many people are losing their jobs. The positive is that there is now a bigger pool of talent for really good businesses to [...]
I don't care about the technology. And I don't care about the internet. As much as I care about customer attention. It doesn't matter where it is. Car dealerships who care about more car sales are doing this right. I have personally invested in multiple Amazon Alexa’s in my home, only because I feel that [...]
Let’s start by defining what car sales with Automotive Digital Retailing is for car dealerships? I like to define Automotive Digital Retailing as: Using digital technologies to better connect digital showrooms with physical ones. Or seamlessly connecting online showrooms to physical in-showroom experiences for car buying consumers. What I’ve noticed in our auto industry is [...]
One of the ways car dealerships buy a car from consumers is as a trade in. The trade in has become more important to car sales, now more than ever before. And there are some car dealerships that are getting their hands on the trade in and some who are losing their grip on the [...]
Now that the country has officially been put on lockdown following the COVID-19 outbreak. Everyone, including car dealerships have had to close doors. What has the impact of this been on the automotive industry, specifically car dealerships? Are businesses quickly adapting their online business models and marketing tactics? Are car dealerships building new and creative [...]
Do you want to know how to effectively market your dealership? Recently AutoTrader revealed the latest iteration of the car industry report. The report outlines results from the analysis of vast amounts of demand, supply and pricing data. Using this data effectively can help you market your dealership. While new car sales data is one [...]
Automotive digital retailing is using digital technologies to better connect digital showrooms with physical ones. It's also about seamlessly connecting online showrooms to physical in-showroom experiences. Reasons consumers like to shop online (particularly in automotive): Being able to shop 24/7 Comparison shop (particularly price) Saves time Convenience The car dealership that employs automotive digital retailing [...]
Would you agree with me that the internet has happened? If you’re starting to think of a digital strategy now, you're potentially late! You’ve got a lot of work to do as a car dealership. It doesn’t mean you can’t WIN because dealerships in South Africa are not doing this kind of thing at scale [...]
Us humans are creatures of habit The way in which we do business might have changed over the years and new technology might have been introduced, but our buying behaviour hardly changed, especially when buying a car. But also in most other areas of our life. Things that we used to do offline, we’re now [...]
